Quotes About Self-discovery

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.

Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

And I don't know how to tell you. I can't do this anymore. Go from one life to another, and this life, this life, feels . . . Stupid. Phony. This is not who I am.

But other things had added to Jerry's present weird mood, his new view of himself as someone who'd suddenly found he was in a six-foot-deep rut when all along he'd thought of himself as sailing.

There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

I am the me I choose to be.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.